Diverse slip behavior of the Banyak Islands subsegment of the Sunda megathrust in Sumatra, Indonesia

• Main Authors: Morgan, Paul M., Feng, Lujia, Meltzner, Aron J., Mallick, Rishav, Hill, Emma M.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Earthquake; Geodetic Inversion
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148890
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Nearly every type of slip behavior of which megathrusts are known to be capable of has been observed within a narrow ~75-km-wide strip of the Sunda megathrust—the Banyak Islands subsegment. The diverse list of recorded slip events starts with the great 1861 M ~ 8.5 earthquake and includes the 1907...